JAI WILLIAMS IS ON FIRE

By Graham Potter | Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Apprentice jockey Jai Williams has announced his arrival on the metropolitan scene in Queensland in such an emphatic fashion that it might have enthusiasts searching the record books.

When last has an apprentice ridden four wjnners in town at two consecutive metropolitan meetings would be the question?

Whatever the answer, it would make no difference to the huge strides that Williams is making in his career right now, not to mention the way he is raising his profile in the best possible manner, which will in turn only attract better rides.

Four winners at Eagle Farm on Saturday … four winners at Eagle Farm today … and that from only fifteen rides with this hotspot of form achieving a hard to believe fifty-three percent winning strike rate. He also finished in the placings on two occasions.

While most of Williams’ winners were on reasonably fancied horses (four of them started favourites) not all of them were ‘gimmes’ as the stunned spectators would have vouched for on Saturday when Williams partnered the $81 outsider Giapponese to a shock victory … and there were winners at $6 and $4 to keep the value going.

And, significantly, Williams’ eight wins came for seven different stables, including the likes of Tony Gollan and Ciaron Maher, which will you an indication of the direction he is heading.

But perhaps the nicest part of all of that is that the only trainer he rode more than one winner for over these two spectacular days was for his old master Stephen Lee, the stable where Williams’ riding journey began.

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